Although they didn't want to admit it, Chi Xue and the others knew that they had suffered heavy losses in their last battle against the Outer Realm Demon Race cultivators. They had only a limited number of elite squads to spare. What was more, they had already used up all the Outer Realm Demon Race cultivators they'd captured in self-detonation attacks. Without that trump card, any elite squad they sent out would be in considerable danger if it encountered enemies—especially a squad of Outer Realm Demon Race cultivators anywhere beyond the God Realm's Southern Region. After all, every Outer Realm Demon Race squad had hundreds of Quasi-Saint Ninth Order experts. That was a formidable force.
The reason Chi Xue and the others had once been able to contend with the Outer Realm Demon Race cultivators for Ninth Order Ancient Divine Beasts was that they had more Ninth Order and peak Eighth Order cultivators back then. They had also captured many Outer Realm Demon Race cultivators and turned them into a trump card, allowing them to act without restraint. Now they had lost that trump card, while the Outer Realm Demon Race cultivators were much stronger than before. Naturally, it would be dangerous to encounter them outside the God Realm's Southern Region.
In short, Chi Xue and the others no longer had enough people to split into several groups. Even if they did, it would be difficult for them to capture Ninth Order Ancient Divine Beasts. They would be relatively safe only in the God Realm's Southern Region, where they had many temporary bases and Teleportation Formations.
However, Po Family Seventeenth Brother and the others still weren't willing to give up. They proposed splitting into just two groups, with one heading to the God Realm's Western Region and the other staying